Also in this Issue
Fingernails, Sweat, and Tears
Drawing on Karl Marx and P. T. Barnum, Mika Rottenberg casts women with extreme physical attributes in her surreal, funny videos
Barbara Pollack
Please Don’t Be Seated
Designers turn chairs into sculptures. Artists transform consumer products into spectacular installations. Increasingly artists and designers are using the same tools, technologies, and art-historical precedents
Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov
A Method to Their Sadness
Part painter, part printmaker, Enoc Perez renders unrequited love and urban isolation
Hilarie M. Sheets
Departments
Art Talk
Kiki Smith, Richard Phillips, Kelly Rutherford, Blake Lively, Elmgreen & Dragset, Ed Westwick, Leighton Meester, Judith Price, Ed Ruscha, Kenneth Hayes, Gilbert & George, Barbara Kruger, Jeff Wall, Graydon Carter, Edward Sorel, Bob Dylan, Dorothy Gallagher, M. Kirby Talley Jr., Richard H. Driehaus, Eduardo Costa, John Perreault, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Carolee Schneemann, Gerard Malanga, Anne Waldman, Judy Collischan
National News
NEW YORK Love letters from Ad Reinhardt SPOTLIGHT Jonathan Brown: Reflecting on a mirror
International News
MOSCOW Orange makes Russians see red PARMA, ITALY Adding a question mark after Correggio’s name BILBAO Global strategies, local concerns
Critic’s Pick
Virgil Grotfeldt: Carbon Loading
Patricia Covo Johnson
Reviews
NEW YORK Petah Coyne; Vincent van Gogh; Carlos Cruz-Diez; Alfred Kubin; Richard Artschwager; William Pope.L; David Levine; Vik Muniz; Brian Clarke; “Abstract Expressionism”; Avish Khebrehzadeh; “Ghost of Souza”; John Ashbery; David Tremlett; Simon Nicholas; Jefferson Hayman; David Buckingham, Daniel Chard, Burleigh Kronquist, Keith Long, and Zarko Stefancic; Joanne Freeman and Kim Uchiyama
NATIONAL Chicago Vincent Fecteau Kent, Connecticut Cleve Gray Los Angeles Julius Shulman San Francisco “Abstract Mash-Up” Scottsdale Hector Ruiz Santa Fe Audrey Flack; Hung Liu Baltimore Chul-Hyun Ahn Miami Loriel Beltran
INTERNATIONAL London “The Revolution Continues” Zurich Agnes Martin Düsseldorf Abigail O’Brien Paris Fred Deux Tel Aviv Gideon Rubin Toronto Scott Lyall; Michael Smith; Ryan McGinness; Pascal Grandmaison; “Hunting!”; Kim Dorland